Improvement in skirt-elevators



a. w. DENNY. Skirt-Elevator.

N0. 165,315, Patentedluly 6,1875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE w. DENNY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-ELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165.315, dated July 6, 1875; application filed January 7, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. W. DEN Y, of

. New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Skirt-Elevator; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the v skirt may be drawn up or let down to trail,

according to the taste of the wearer; and the invention consists in a metallic waist-band, combined with a hoop jointed to the waistband by slots in the hoop, and the band constructed with pockets or loops into which the ends of the hoop maybe set to secure it in its elevated position; or when thrown back .out from the control of the pockets the hoop will drop to the rear, and the dress-skirt attached to the hoop will be elevated or dropped accordingly, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the waist-band, made from a strip of any suitable metal, and provided with means for uniting the two ends around the waist of the wearer; B, the hoop, formed fromsimilar material, and with a slot, or, in each end. The

two ends of the hoop are attached to the band A, upon opposite sides, by a stud, d, through the slots, and forward of the studs. The band is provided with a pocket, 6, or loops, into the rear, as seen in Fig. 1. Thega hoop is pro-' vided with hooks f, or other devices, as a convenient means for attaching the skirt to the hoop. The band is secured around the waist and the skirt to the hoop.

If the wearer desires the rear of the skirt to be drawn up she takes hold of the hoop upon opposite sides and raises it into the plane of the fixed band, and forces the ends into the pockets in the hand. If, then, she desires the skirt to trail, in like manner takes hold of the hoop and draw the two ends from the pockets, and allow the hoop to fall, as seen in Fig. 1.

The pockets are best formed by a sheetmctal case around each end of the band, leaving aspace outside for the hoop to enter.

I claim- A skirt-elevator composed of the band'A, provided with pockets c on opposite sides, combined with the hoop B, the ends of which are slotted and jointed to the band A, so as to pass into or out of said pockets, substan tially as described.

GEORGE W. DENNY. Witnesses:

J OHN E. EARLE, U. V. FORBES. 

